A paragraph of me blabbering and you zone right in on the one typo. Also I don't know if you were joking or what about scientific knowledge so I'm just gonna let it go since you know, you're TDK I mean come on.

ALSO HEY BITVYPER, DUDE YOU ARE KIND OF A JERK AND ALSO:

Ducking and Covering is only marginally better than just standing there. I know it seems like it's at least safer than doing nothing, but it's really not. If the building you're in isn't torn to pieces by a nuclear blast and/or you're not thrown against a wall hard enough to fracture your bones then you've probably survived the concussive phase of the bomb fairly well. If you're in a radius that's close enough to cause severe burns but far enough away that you and your clothes don't just catch on fire, covering up will do a pretty good job of protecting your skin. But if you're close enough to the blast where you're getting severe burns, you've got way bigger problems than, you know, severe burns.

Also no I have never visited another city I live in a sunken pirate vessel on the ocean floor.

No I was completely serious.

And how do you get air at the bottom of the ocean?

I'm pretty sure we can stop arguing about what nukes do as the physics major totally owned that.

Also pointed out a way for nuclear cars to exist that more or less makes sense so even I'm happy with it now.

MOVING ON!

Edit: DFM has gills. He's a fish man. His name is Greg.

I DON'T KNOW IF I'M STILL ALLOWED TO INSULT TDK NOW THAT THE DISCUSSION HAS CHANGED.

EDIT: TDK YOU'RE DUMB NOBODY LIKES YOU.

I'm old greeeeeg!

So anyway, yeah, I think the VATS thing looks pretty sweet, how you can pause and make it turn-based-y anytime you want, although from the look of things there'll probably be some kind of limit on it. Otherwise it would pretty much be a win button since the enemy died pretty much every time it was used in the video.

Also, <3 Powerfist. Reminds me of the black power glove from The Boondocks.

Totally un-related to the topic, but what if I was 35 miles away? Or 40? I'd still see the flash I assume, prompting the duck-and-cover, but the whole "Everything is burning oh gawwwd" thing wouldn't be in effect, would it? I don't really know much about the A-bomb.

Also, I hope that this game will be what I've been looking for. I mean, balancing thirst and radioactivity levels? Huzzah!

I plan on looting every single person/place/thing that I meet, and it will be righteous.

The limit is your action points, I don't know how fast they recharge.

You see the flash get a really bad sunburn and maybe still die of radiation poisoning depending on wind direction. Duck and cover does very little in any case because the thermal flash travels at the speed of light. In short if you saw the flash you got hit by the thermal flash. Even if you duck in cover in time you just get slightly less severe burns.

I'm so getting this game and look forward to making it my bitch like every other RPG I have ever touched.

Fun fact: Duck and Cover was made before they clearly identified the bombs had radioactive fallout. Apparently they didn't look at/didn't care about those Japanese cities they dropped the bombs on.

All in all, Duck And Cover was of a more psychological benefit than anything else. Yes, it made you aware of nuclear death, but it also gave you a glimmer of hope of survival.

If you can actually see the flash, you're already subject to the effects of the bomb, and are quite likely being burned and hammered by concussive shockwaves.

Besides that, you're almost certainly blind. Permanently.

All of this is assuming you're outside of the immediate area in which nukes kill.

Any closer, and you're pretty much dead.

Duck and Cover assumes advance warning.

EDIT: While far from comprehensive, this is a fairly good overlook of the effects of a nuclear blast.